Method of forming handles for metal vessels



Oct. 26 1926 1,604,807

H. l. CITULEE.

METHOD OF FORMING HANDLES FOR METAL VESSELS Filed March 18, 1926 1 Par/0 Patented Oct. 26, 1926.

UNETED STATES PATENT orFicE.

HARRY I. CLULEE, OF WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT,

ASSIGNOR TO B. WALLACE &

METHOD OF FORMING HANDLES FOR METAL VESSELS.

Application filed March 18, 1926. Serial No. 95,656.

I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection wlth the accompanylng drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Fig. 1, a planview of a strip of metal, indicating a method of cutting blanks therefrom.

Fig. 2, a perspective view of a blank.

Fig. 3, a side view of the blank after it has been compressed edgewise.

Fig. 4, a sectional view on the line 4c 4: of Fig. 3, the blank in its original form be ing indicated in broken lines.

Fig. 5, a side view of a finished handle.

Fig. 6, a plan view of asecond form of handle construct-ed in accordance with this invention.

This invention relates to improvement in method of forming handles for metal ves sels and particularly metal articles for table service, such, for instance, as small pitchers, sugan bowls, metal serving dishes, and similar articles. Handles for the purpose specified have been cast, but difiiculty is always experienced in making perfect castings. Handles for this purpose have also been formed from wire rods, but it is obvious that the variations in the form and design of the handles must necessarily be limited. The

object of this invention is to form the handles from sheet-metal, and the invention consists in the method hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claim.

In carrying out my invention, I strike a blank from a strip 11 of sheet-metal of the required thickness. This blank has a width greater than the thickness of the metal from which the blank is cut and contains the amount of metal necessary to form a handle of the desired shape. For instance, the ends are enlarged to provide metal for the miter ends 12 and 13 of the finished handle. The blank is also widened at a point as 14: to provide metal for an embossed ornamentation or tip 15.

The blank thus cut and as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, is then placed in a press and compressed e'dgewise, producing a ban dle-blank, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, of the desired cross-section and with miters 12 and 13 of a size suitable for the purpose for which the handle is to be used and, atthe same time, the. tip is formed on the blank. The blank thus partly formed is then bent in a plane parallel with the width of the blank in its original form by suitable means into the desired form, as indicated in Fig. 5 of the drawings, which brings the miter-faces 12 and 13 into proper alignment for attachment to a vessel.

Some handles shaped loop, as indicated in Fig. 6 of the drawings, and these handles can be formed in the same way, it only being essential that the blank, as initially cut, shall have sulficient metal at desired points to form the completed article when the blank is struck edgewise.

With this method of forming handles, the loss by imperfect casting is greatly reduced, the ornamental tip and miter faces can be much more pronounced than would be pos sible in handles formed from wire, and the saving of finishing handles struck from sheet-metal over handles formed from cast-- metal is accomplished.

I claim:

A method of forming metal handles, consisting in striking a blank from a sheet of metal of the desired thickness and of a width greater than the thickness, compressing the blank edgewise and then bending the partly developed blank in a plane parallel with the width of the blank in its original form to the desired shape.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification.

HARRY I. CLULEE.

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